{"product_id":"kitchen-privileges-isbn-9780743412612","title":"Kitchen Privileges","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAngela’s Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e comes home to the Bronx in Mary Higgins Clark’s brilliant, touching, charming, and bittersweet memoir of a childhood during the Depression. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Higgins Clark’s memoir begins with the death of her father in 1939. With no money in the house—the Higgins Bar and Grill in the Bronx is failing and in debt, and worry about it is one of the things that has killed her father—Mary’s indomitable Irish mother (she devotes a chapter to her “Wild Irish Mother”) puts out a classified ad: “Furnished rooms! Kitchen Privileges!” Very shortly there arrives the first in a succession of tenants who will change the lives of the Higgins family and set the young Mary on her start as a writer, while bringing to them all a dose of the Christmas spirit that seemed to have vanished with Mr. Higgins’s death.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Full of hope, faith, memorable characters, and warmth, \u003ci\u003eKitchen Privileges\u003c\/i\u003e brings back into sharp, nostalgic focus the feeling of growing up poor, but determined to survive, in a vanished Bronx that was one of white lace curtains instead of a slum, and at a time when everybody was poor and either needed or offered a helping hand.","brand":"Gallery Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48683278401765,"sku":"NP9780743412612","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/O_689957b7-b997-44fd-b3b0-f5e77e8fa95d.jpg?v=1775169463","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/kitchen-privileges-isbn-9780743412612","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}